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Paid Psychology Subjects Pool

For UBC students or Metro Vancouver residents, if you are interested in participating in paid psychology studies, please visit this website: Paid Psychology Studies. You can easily join the mailing list and receive email updates of available paid studies. To do so, please send and email (from the address you want added to the list) to majordomo@interchange.ubc.ca and include the following in the body of the message (not in the subject):

subscribe paidsurveys-list


For UBC researchers, if you have paid studies you want listed on the Paid Psychology Studies mailing list/website, please send me and email containing the following below. Please copy and paste the information below into your email, so that it maintains the same formatting.


Study Title:
A unique title used to identify your study
Researchers:  The grad students and the primary investigator running the study
Brief Description of the Study: A few sentences or a short paragraph about what participants will do. You can use the Human Subjects Pool style as a guide.
Eligibility: Any restrictions, such as if you just want students, psych majors, certain ages, etc.
Location: Where participants will take the study (e.g., Kenny building, online)

Contact Information: A name and email address or phone number that participants can contact to organize a time to participate
Reimbursement/Time:
What will participants be paid and how long will the study take
Start and End Date:  If your study does not start right away, please include a start date. Please include a date when the study will be removed from the list.


Below are things I've found useful.

How to randomly assign participants to multiple survey links.

If you use surveymonkey or something similar that does not easily allow random assign to different conditions (i.e.,, survey links), here is one way to do so.

First, make sure each condition is a separate surveymonkey survey with its own link.

Second, you will need to make a main website that all participants will start on. I use my website (the one you are on right now) that my university provides for me, but any old website that you can edit will do.

Last, just copy and paste the info below into the html source code of the website that will act as the main one.

<script type="text/javascript">
function randomlinks(){
var myrandom=Math.round(Math.random()*9)
var links=new Array()
links[0]="http://www.javascriptkit.com"
links[1]="http://www.dynamicdrive.com"
links[2]="http://www.cssdrive.com"
links[3]="http://www.codingforums.com"
links[4]="http://www.news.com"
links[5]="http://www.gamespot.com"
links[6]="http://www.msnbc.com"
links[7]="http://www.cnn.com"
links[8]="http://news.bbc.co.uk"
links[9]="http://www.news.com.au"

window.location=links[myrandom]
}
</script>
<form>
<input type="button" value="random link!" onClick="randomlinks()">
</form>

Change the links above (e.g., www.news.com) to your surveymonkey links. Make sure each surveymonkey link is a different condition. You probably won't have 10 different conditions, so adjust the script above so that it fits your needs.

Here is a simple example I made using a very similar script, for those who want to see this in action.  Feel free to modify it as you see fit. (right mouse click the Download link and select Save Link As to open and edit it in your editor--seamonkey is a free one) Download


How to combine multiple .csv files into one file (useful when each file represents a single participant).

Step 1) Make sure all of your .csv files that you want merged are in the same folder
Step 2) In Windows 7, open the command prompt (click "start" then search for cmd.exe or simply cmd)
Step 3) After you open the command prompt, navigate to the folder that contains the files using the "cd" command (e.g., if your files are in the   c:\data\   folder, type in    cd c:\data )
Step 4) Once you are in the folder that contains the files you want combined,
type in  copy *.csv name.csv.
You can substitute name for whatever you want your new file to be called

And that's it!




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